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A story from a room with a window overlooking a cemetery
Project type
Interactive theater performance; Installation
Date
April 2023
Location
Farkas Hall, Cambridge, MA
Role
Writer, Director, Actor
Team
Cast:
Sazi Bongwe
Artea Brahaj
Amelie Julicher
Varya Lyapneva
Rachel Sidney-Sapolsky
Kasia Zarzycka
Director: Kasia Zarzycka
Assistant director: Maranatha Paul
Sound design: Valentina Doerre-Torres
Stage manager: William Pryor
Costume designer: Bettie Closs
Set designers: Yolanda (Yuanlu) Peng, Alyona Sotnikova with Ton-Nu Nguyen Dinh
Light design: Cam Parsons Muniz
Poster design: S Kim
Produced as a senior thesis by Theater, Dance and Media department at Harvard College, under supervision by Alexander Hartley, dr. Debra Levine, Tania Bruguera.
The production and research were partially financed by TDM at Harvard, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.
"What a brilliant idea! In a country without history - change history! Remake it from scratch! In one fell swoop by decree... just like the country was created - create it again!"
Structured as a guided tour around a museum space which quickly overflows with stories it cannot contain, with a chaos of a provincial Chilean high school and nostalgic memories of a Polish grandma and her Little Metal granddaughter, A story from a room with a window overlooking a cemetery creates a polyphonic story about the intertwined public and private histories.
Original play with excerpts from "La pequeña historia de Chile" by Marco Antonio de la Parra and "Między nami dobrze" jest by Dorota Masłowska.
